Character: 觸
Modern (Beijing) reading: chù
Preclassic Old Chinese: thok
Classic Old Chinese: thok
Western Han Chinese: thok
Eastern Han Chinese: ćhok
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćhok
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćhok
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćhok
Middle Chinese: ćhöuk
English meaning : to butt
Russian meaning[s]: 1) задеть; коснуться, дотронуться; 2) толкнуть; ударить; бодать; 3) осязать, чувствовать; 4) бросаться (в глаза); 5) бить (в нос)
Comments: In Viet. cf. also xộc 'rush, dash'. Both xóc and xộc are expressive and thus not necessarily borrowed; standard Sino-Viet. is xúc.
Radical: 148
Four-angle index: 4366
Karlgren code: 1224 g
Vietnamese reading: xóc
